Marvel Must Haves: The Ultimates 2 #1-3

    (Marvel, 2005)
™ and © 2004, 2005 Marvel Characters, Inc.

When Marvel does super-heroes right, it does them perfectly. Mark Millar has writes The Ultimates like Robert Johnson plays guitar, and somewhere amid the laughing, gasping, and weeping, you realize he’s just made something very complex amazingly look natural. It’s an odd thing, reading a Captain America who isn’t a lame horse, and this is probably the best case for giving Millar his dream-project of Superman, another blue boy scout suffering from inaccessibility to the adult reader.

Even when you disapprove of The Ultimates, personally or politically, you cheer them on and wish you could meet these human gods. Millar keeps those battles, both big and small, wildly unpredictable, and the art team of penciler Bryan Hitch and inker Paul Neary lay the whole adventure out in gorgeous pages which evoke stale comparison to a summer blockbuster one final time. But it’s better than any movie. This team has turned fictional characters into celebrities both on and off the page. The entire story stretches wider than the book, with a perpetual sense of something grand and enduring in the work of both the Ultimates and their creators.

— Brendan McGinley
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